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There was tutti yesterday. I expected it to be uninteresting and as per normal. But Jie Ying never fails to stun me. I was listening to Mr Lee talking about something when suddenly, *crash**bang* (repeat a few more times with decrescendo). Then silence. I turned behind to where the sound was came from and saw Jie Ying's violin on the floor. Poor violin.. jy must have abused it too much so it decided to commit suicide.. Other than that, tutti was quite normal. Oh, except we listened to A-Roving and the Divertimento recordings. I'm still a bit addicted to O Waly Waly and A-Roving. John Rutter is a genius.

Doing violin practice after tutti or sectionals is really very productive. Because I'm slightly tired, I tend to play and practice better. I don't know why. The cadenza (by Franky I think) for the Mozart Violin Concerto is nice. But I think I'll need 2 weeks before I can play it smoothly. Jy and I tried out the thing today, but couldn't get past a few bars so ended up self-practicing. If I were to write the cadenza, I would put "pianist laughing solo, violin rest". Through playing this concerto, I think I've understood Classical concertos much better. Didn't know it in time for EOY but it's ok, there's still O levels. I also realised that Mozart has very unique musical characteristics that can be found in most of his pieces, like his rhythms. Ok enough about music for now.

My parents went out yesterday and since they were roaming around in orchard, I passed them a list of shoopping tasks to complete. It was 15% completed. They bought back a flat and short bar of chocolate from Marks & Spencers which I think wasn't even a bar by the time they reached home. It was more like chocolate syrup or those small little salad dressing packets. I froze it overnight in the freezer. When I went to check it this morning, I found it on the kitchen table, thawing, or I think melting. I picked it up and it curled over my finger. Looks like it's back to square one on freezing it.